Common Challenges
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This psychological change, which involves holding and processing information temporarily, declines in older adults and can impact decision-making, problem-solving, and remembering when to take medications.
What is Working Memory?
This "effect" refers to the health benefits that older adults may experience from being in a long-term partnership or marriage.
What is The Marriage Effect?
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The frequency (%) of older adults with one chronic illness
What is 80%?
What is the type of support related to an individual’s religion or faith that a nurse can implement with their patient?
What is Spiritual Support?
A person's ability to perform activities, maintain their home, and attend social gatherings independently falls under what social change category?
What is Functional Status?
These two economic and educational factors can help older adults maintain their mental sharpness and access resources that promote better health.
What is Education and Income?
The relative absence of social relationships
What is Social Isolation?
What is the screening tool called to detect early indications of symptoms of depression in an older adult?
What is Geriatric Depression Scale?
A decline in these senses can make it challenging for older adults to detect spoiled foods, gas leaks, or temperature changes, which can pose safety risks and impact nutrition.
What is dulled taste, smell, and touch?
Optimism and the ability to bounce back from challenges are characteristics of this protective factor.
What is Resilience and Positive Outlook?
Intentional actions that cause harm or create a serious risk for harm to a vulnerable older adult by a caregiver or trusted person
What is Older Adult Mistreatment?
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What are depressive symptoms among older adults?
What is...
Vague somatic complaints
Cognitive symptoms
Hypersomnia
Appetite changes
RATHER than complaints of depressed mood
This psychological change causes older adults to feel that time moves more quickly than it did when they were younger, leading them to focus more on the present and maintain stability in their lives.
What is Perception of Time?
The protective factor that promotes adequate hydration and a balanced diet.
What is Nutrition?
The use of 5 or more medications
What is Polypharmacy?
What are community services that could be of benefit to an older adult?
What is...
Information and referral services
Transportation and nutrition services
Legal and protective services
Comprehensive older adult community centers
Homemaker and handyman services
Matching of older with younger individuals to share housing
Use of the supports available through places of worship, community groups, or mental health and other community agencies
This factor often limits an older adult's access to essential resources like healthcare centers, safe recreational spaces, and places of worship, impacting their quality of life and well-being.
What is Community Factors?
This protective factor reduces symptoms of anxiety/depression and helps maintain mobility.
What is Physical Activity?
Depression, loss of independence, social isolation, and substance or alcohol use disorder are risk factors for?
What is Suicide?
Providing educational interventions to increase awareness and understanding is one way nurses contribute to this outcome for older adults.
What is Reducing Stigma?